In this July. 6, 2012 photo, Alexandra Bahman, who emigrated to Israel from Moldova in 2006, sits in her bedroom with her cat. Bahman left Moldova with the carpet and photos that now decorate her bedroom walls, in Ashdod, Israel. ...
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In this July 6, 2012 photo, canned sardines are served at a family dinner at the home of Moldovan immigrant Puma Rotner in Ashdod, Israel - a city heavily populated by immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Rotner left her ...
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In this Feb. 3, 2012 photo, a waiter serves traditional Russian food at a seaside restaurant in Ashdod, a southern Israeli city heavily populated by immigrants from the former Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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In this Oct. 30, 2012 photo, a carpet covers the bedroom wall in Tsila Gorenstein's apartment in Be'er Sheva, southern Israel. In her native Moldova, heavy carpets were hung on the walls to heat homes during wintertime, but in the ...
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In this Oct. 31, 2012 photo, Bella Perlin, center, and Avraham Shapiro, left, Belarusian immigrants, eat breakfast in their home in Hadera, northern Israel. They emigrated to Israel in 1991 at the height of the wave of immigration from the ...
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In this Nov. 9, 2012 photo, gymnasts from Russian-speaking immigrant families warm up at a gymnastics competition organized for Israel's immigrant community, in the southern resort city of Eilat. Most of Israel's Olympic gymnasts are immigrants from the former Soviet ...
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In this Feb. 3, 2012 photo, acrobats wait in a dressing room before their show at L'Chaim, a Russian restaurant in Ashdod, Israel. Many circus performers emigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, and acrobatic shows are a unique ...
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In this Dec. 4, 2012 photo, two immigrants from the Ural region of the former Soviet Union rinse off after bathing in the Mediterranean Sea in the early morning, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Many Soviet immigrants gather at the beach ...
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In this Feb. 6, 2012 photo, Russian-speaking Israeli immigrants train in a boxing club in Ashdod, a southern Israeli city heavily populated by immigrants from the former Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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In this Jan. 31, 2012 photo, the children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union attend a ballet class in Lod, central Israel. Some prominent ballet dancers left the former Soviet Union for Israel, forming ballet schools and continuing a ...
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In this Feb. 18, 2012 photo, a Russian-speaking Israeli immigrant referee stands in the ring during a boxing competition for Israeli youth, in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat. Many of Israel's boxing clubs are run by immigrants from ...
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In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo, an employee of the Mizra pork factory poses with a pig's head in a refrigerated warehouse in Kibbutz Mizra, northern Israel. The million-strong Soviet immigrant community has increased customer demand for pork in the ...
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In this Oct. 26, 2012 photo, immigrants from the former Soviet Union practice sword-fighting in full knight armor, in a public park in Ramat Gan, central Israel. Medieval combat simulation is popular in ex-Soviet countries and some immigrants have continued ...
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